Original Analects Supplement
Glossary

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bu4. X "not," the basic Chinese negative.

chin2. N musical instrument, typically with seven strings on a long lacquered wood body; played by holding it on the lap. Compare the similar but larger sv.

Chin2 Jang1. Name of a supposed follower of Confucius, who however never appears in the Analects, and does not figure on the disciple list analyzed in Appendix 4 (see TOA p277). He figures in one scholarly conjecture about the person named in LY 9:7; see our separate Note.

Dzwo3chyou1 Ming2. N an individual mentioned in 5:25. He is later considered to be a disciple of Confucius, but in 5:25 he is obviously a respected older contemporary of Confucius. NB: The name is sometimes divided as Dzwo Chyou-ming, but with some scholars we consider that Dzwo-chyou is the likelier early Warring States surname.

fu2 [originally fut]. X "not . . [it]," a contraction of the negative bu with a pronoun object jr which has been preposed because of the negation of the verb.

jin1 you3 yi1 rvn2. Phrase, ostensibly "Now there is a man," but idiomatically signalling a conjectural or hypothetical situation: "Suppose we have a man."

jr1. P an object pronoun: "him, them, it." By rule, it appears before the verb (but after the negative) if the verb is negated. It may there fuse phonetically with the negative itself, in which case it survives only as a final -t consonant in the resulting contraction. The classic case is bu + jr > fut. This contraction process is typical of Warring States Chinese, and (on the whole) does not hold either for earlier or later periods.

jr1. V "to know." May sometimes stand graphically for its noun derivative jr4 "wisdom" (see next), and vice versa.

jr4 . N "wisdom," V3 "be wise." May sometimes stand graphically for the original verb jr "know" (see preceding), and vice versa.

li4. N "advantage, profit;" V2 "regard as beneficial, confer benefits on; turn to one's advantage." This is a natural human value, later taken up as a touchstone by the utilitarian Micians. Becoming thus identified with a rival doctrine, it was opposed by the Mencians. The negative sense of li4 in the early Analects is not yet of this developed type.

rvn2. N man, person, others.

rvn2. V3 humane, other-centered; benevolent.

sv4. N musical instrument, typically with twenty-five strings on a long and often richly decorated wooden body; it is held on the lap while being played. Compare the similar but smaller chin2.

su4. N hurry, flurry [a possible Chi dialect word].

yi4. B "also, really."

Yi4. The Chinese Classic of Changes.

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